Weaver&#39;s comb.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. LENVIN, OF FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS.

WEAVERS COMB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 666,763, dated January 29, 1901.

Application filed September 25,1900- Serial No- 31,064. (N0 model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE IV. LEWIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at'Fall River, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Weavers Combs, of which the following is a specification.

The weavers comb is usually made of a number of fine-pointed steel pins rigidly fastened within a piece of folded metal constituting a frame or back, and has two purposes to serve, one being to comb up a surface on the cloth, the other to pick up and draw out threads. For the latter purpose combs have been made with a pin or tooth bent outwardly from the comb lengthwise or connected pivotally with the comb, as in the device of P.

Rooney, Patent No. 378,376, dated February 21, 1888, in which it may be adjusted outwardly for one purpose or in a position parallel with the other pins or teeth to act with 4 them in the purpose for which they are designed.

There are defects in a weavers comb constructed with an adjustable tooth, as described, as to cost and durability, which my invention remedies.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, the figure represents a weavers comb, a, being the teeth, and 0 the folded metallic back in which the teeth are rigidly held and also holding firmly the end tooth b. The end tooth b varies from the teeth a, first, in being made of a flat piece of metal, second, in being shorter than the teeth a, and, third, in having the hook e. The purpose of the hook e is to pick up and draw out threads, for which it is always in position without adjustment. It will be apparent that the tooth b being shorter than the teeth (1 cannot interfere with them in their work.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim, and wish to secure by Letters Patent,

1. In a weavers comb, pins or teeth in a back or frame in which they are rigidly set,

a tooth made of flat metal also rigidly set in GEORGE W. LEWIN.

Witnesses:

THOMAS F. HIGGINS, PHILIP MAKER. 

